FW: J. Artificial Societies and Social Simulation: Vol. 6(3) published

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The Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation=20
(http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/) published the third issue of Volume 6=20
on 30 June.

JASSS is an electronic, refereed journal devoted to the exploration and=20
understanding of social processes by means of computer simulation.  It=20
is located at <http://www.soc.surrey.ac.uk/JASSS/>. It is freely=20
available, with no subscription.  JASSS receives about 75,000 page=20
requests per month from readers all round the world (see=20
http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/stats/statistics.html).

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In this issue, Stephen Younger describes a simulation of the fate of an=20
artificial society in which the social structures have some resemblance=20
to those of simple hunter-gatherer societies and explores the=20
implications of different strategies for food and material storage. =20
Zhigang Wang and Warren Thorngate investigate the social consequences=20
of balancing sentiment relations among triads of members of a larger=20
group, when balancing one triad can imbalance others. Results show=20
that, regardless of the starting configuration of sentiments, all=20
imbalances in a group are eventually balanced in a steady state=20
containing no more than two subgroups.

There are two papers on simulating financial markets.  Hiroshi=20
Takahashi and Takao Terano study a virtual financial market that=20
contains two types of investors, fundamentalists and=20
non-fundamentalists, and explore what happens when one or the other=20
type of investor predominates.  Massimo Sapienza also uses a virtual=20
financial market to examine under what conditions agents who=20
incorporate option values when forming their trading prices obtain=20
higher profits.

The issue also features the concluding three papers in the special=20
section on  "Role-Playing Games, Models and Negotiation Processes",=20
edited by Olivier Barreteau: Patrick D'Aquino et al. describe an=20
experiment to provide people with the tools to build their own=20
participative simulations, William's Dar=E9 and Olivier Barreteau=20
investigate to what extent participants (Senegalese farmers) in role=20
playing games import their 'real' roles and rules of behaviour into the=20
game, and  M. Duijn, L.H. Immers, F.A. Waaldijk and H.J. Stoelhorst=20
report on using a participative simulation to help policymakers deal=20
with the 'ill-structured problem' of dealing with traffic congestion in=20
an urban environment.

In the Forum section, Michael Agar reflects on the problems and perils=20
of translating ethnographic conclusions into an agent-based simulation,=20
and K K Fung and Shekhar Vemuri consider the major impact that the=20
choice of initial conditions can make on the outcome of a simulation.

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Peer-reviewed Articles
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Stephen M. Younger
Discrete Agent Simulations of the Effect of Simple Social Structures on=20
the Benefits of Resource Sharing

Zhigang Wang and Warren Thorngate
Sentiment and Social Mitosis: Implications of Heider's Balance Theory

Hiroshi Takahashi and Takao Terano
Agent-Based Approach to Investors' Behaviour and Asset Price=20
Fluctuation in  Financial Markets

Massimo Sapienza
Do Real Options Perform Better than Net Present Value?  Testing in an=20
Artificial Financial Market

Role-Playing Games, Models and Negotiation Processes: part II

     Patrick D'Aquino, Christophe Le Page, Fran=E7ois Bousquet and=20
Alassane  Bah
     Using Self-Designed Role-Playing Games and a Multi-Agent System to=20
Empower a Local Decision-Making Process for Land Use Management:   The=20
SelfCormas Experiment in Senegal

     William's Dar=E9 and Olivier Barreteau
      A Role-playing Game in Irrigated System Negotiation: between Play=20
and Reality

     M. Duijn, L.H. Immers, F.A. Waaldijk and H.J. Stoelhorst
     Gaming Approach Route 26: a Combination of Computer Simulation, =20
Design tools and Social Interaction

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Forum  (Editor: Klaus G. Troitzsch)
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Michael Agar
My Kingdom for a Function: Modeling Misadventures of the Innumerate

K K Fung and Shekhar Vemuri
The Significance of Initial Conditions in Simulations

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Book Review    (Review editor: Edmund Chattoe)
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Learning SIMUL8: The Complete Guide (and SIMUL8 Version 6)
by Jaret Hauge and Kerrie Paige
Reviewed by L=E1szl=F3  Guly=E1s

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The new issue can be accessed through the JASSS home page:=20
<http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/JASSS.html>.

The next issue wil be published at the end of October 2003.

Submissions are welcome: see=20
<http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/admin/submit.html>

_______________________________________________________________________
Professor Nigel Gilbert,  Editor, Journal of Artificial Societies and
    Social Simulation, <http://www.soc.surrey.ac.uk/JASSS/>.
Centre for Research on Simulation in the Social Sciences (CRESS),
    Department of Sociology, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK.
   Tel:[phone]  Fax:[phone]  [hidden email]
Simulation resources at <http://www.soc.surrey.ac.uk/research/simsoc/>